Tag Archives: Pope Francis

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis´s public admission that priests have used nuns as “sexual slaves” – and may still be doing so – marks a new chapter in the abuse crisis rocking the Catholic church. “It is the first time that the pope, but also the church as an institution, has ...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis warned against the “disinformation” and “targeted distortion of facts” to be found on the Internet and social networks’ “manipulation of personal data”. The Internet “is a source of knowledge and relationships that were once unthinkable,” the Argentine pope said in a message for the World Day of ...

PARIS: In reminding the faithful that their messiah was born into poverty and apparently stayed there his entire short life, Pope Francis I called for a focus on charity and compassion instead of what he referred to as the “insatiable greed” of global “consumerism.” In the traditional St. Peter’s Basilica ...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Wednesday compared having an abortion to hiring a “contract killer”. “Interrupting a pregnancy is like eliminating someone,” Francis said in an address to worshippers in the Vatican. “Getting rid of a human being is like resorting to a contract killer to solve a problem,” he ...

VATICAN CITY: The archbishop who sparked a crisis in the Catholic Church by calling on Pope Francis to resign has denied he was motivated by personal vendetta and said he sought to show that corruption had reached the top levels of the Church hierarchy. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has gone ...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis is urging everyone to combat the “shameful crime” of human trafficking, noting that it’s often linked to migrant smuggling. In remarks Sunday to the public in St. Peter’s Square, Francis decried that many adults and children are trafficked into slavery for forced labor, sex businesses, organ ...

VATICAN: Archbishop of Karachi Joseph Coutts was elevated as Cardinal by Pope Francis. He is one of the 14 Catholic churchmen from five continents who were promoted to the rank of cardinal. Born on July 21, 1945, Coutts is the second Pakistani ever to be elevated to the position of ...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has offered a prayer in St. Peter’s Square for an end to violence in the deeply impoverished Central African Republic, which he visited 2½ years ago. Francis during his traditional Sunday blessing recalled the serious violence in recent days that left many, including a priest, dead. ...

SANTIAGO: Pope Francis opened his visit to Chile by asking forgiveness for child sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in the South American country. “I cannot begin to express the pain and shame that I feel over the irreparable harm caused to children on the part of ...

VATICAN CITY: A topless activist from the feminist group Femen tried to snatch the statue of the baby Jesus from the Nativity scene in St Peter’s Square on Monday but was stopped by police as she grabbed it. A Reuters photographer said the woman jumped over guard rails and rushed onto the ...